Getting to the Heart of What You Want to Say with Jamie Varon
The Unmistakable Creative Podcast
Srinivas Rao
4.8 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 18 January 2016
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Jamie Varon, writer and designer joins us to discuss design and writing in a way that gets to the heart f what you want to say.
HIGHLIGHTS
- Thinking along the lines of what a professional would do
- The role of self-motivation in our work
- The power of teaching yourself
- Overcoming the desire to just be comfortable
- Recognizing the disconnect between where you are and where you want to be
- How our imprints motivate or demotivate
- The variables that create the spectrum of human performance
- How extremely high expectations can actually hold us back
- The advantage of naivety and not considering the outcome
- How pre-judgements and uncertainty get in our way
- The echo-chamber of life advice on the internet
- The danger of getting swallowed in approval
- Why your great work won’t come from following someone else’s rules
QUOTES
I don’t like the feeling that I can’t change where I’m at.
Either your outrunning something or trying to keep up with something.
Our culture is very programmed to avoid uncertainty.
If you’re convicted from a really true place, you can’t get let fear get you.
It’s a very vulnerable thing to live life on your own terms.
Write the things you want to read. Not what you think people want to read.
Books, Resources, and Articles Mentioned
- Turning Pro by Steven Pressfield
- This is How We Date Now
- Nobody on the Internet is Living the Life You Think They Are
Jamie Varon is a writer and designer. He work has been featured Huffington Post, Complex/NTRSCTN, Medium,Thought Catalog, Teen Vogue, The Liberty Project, and SF Weekly. You can follow her on twitter @jamievaron.
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| 0:00.0 | I find I guess like in my work I tend to study like human behavior in terms of like why people are unhappy like not even within work but like just life, why are why are we dissatisfied? Why are we |
| 0:15.7 | unhappy? Like, why do we have these expectations? Why do we want the things that we |
| 0:19.8 | want? I think it's more, I tend to like look at more psychological reasons for people's I find |
| 0:28.5 | that I I meet a lot of people or encounter a lot of people that just don't seem to be living the life |
| 0:35.5 | that they want to live. There's a lot of bitterness and anger and resentment and I'm |
| 0:40.0 | always curious about that like why do, why do we accept those things? |
| 0:45.0 | Like, we have one life. |
| 0:46.7 | What are we supposed to do with it? |
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